
Date of issue: 22.08.2019
Song language: English
Four Songs, Op 13: No.4, Nocturne |
Close my darling both your eyes, |
Let your arms lie still at last. |
Calm the lake of falsehood lies |
And the wind of lust has passed, |
Waves across these hopeless sands |
Fill my heart and end my day, |
Underneath your moving hands |
All my aching flows away. |
Even the human pyramids |
Blaze with such a longing now: |
Close, my love, your trembling lids, |
Let the midnight heal your brow, |
Northward flames Orion’s horn, |
Westward th' Egyptian light. |
None to watch us, none to warn |
But the blind eternal night. |